3/21/25 Erin Calipari: Hunger enhances goal representation in dorsal striatum dopamine to promote future approach
Mar. 18, 2025—Neuroscience Brown Bag Erin Calipari, PhD Associate Professor of Pharmacology, Molecular Physiology and Biophysics Director of Vanderbilt Center for Addiction Research Vanderbilt Brain Institute Vanderbilt Institute for Infection, Immunology and Inflammation Date: Friday, March 21, 2025 Time: 1:25-2:15pm Location: Wilson Hall 316 Hunger enhances goal representation in dorsal striatum dopamine to promote future approach Hunger is a...
3/20/25 Michael Pratte, Mississippi State: Stimulus-Specific effects in Vision and Visual Memory: Pernicious Noise and Buried Treasure
Mar. 12, 2025—CCN Brown Bag Michael Pratte, PhD Associate Professor, Department of Psychology Mississippi State University Date: Thursday, March 20, 2025 Time: 12:10-1:00pm Location: Wilson Hall 316 Stimulus-Specific effects in Vision and Visual Memory: Pernicious Noise and Buried Treasure Everyone knows that you shouldn’t average data over people. Ignoring person variability would inject massive amounts of noise into the results,...
Conor Smithson wins Provost’s Pathbreaking Discovery Award
Mar. 10, 2025—Conor Smithson wins Provost’s Pathbreaking Discovery Award This premier award is from the Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, the Vice Provost for Graduate Education and the Dean of the Graduate School. This award celebrates doctoral students who demonstrate truly exceptional research and scholarship. This award celebrates doctoral students who demonstrate truly exceptional research...
Brock Carlson successfully defends dissertation
Mar. 6, 2025—Brock Carlson’s dissertation BINOCULAR POPULATION RESPONSES IN THE EARLY VISUAL SYSTEM Under the direction of Dr. Alexander Maier and Dr. Geoffrey Woodman, Brock successfully defended his dissertation on March 4th, 2025. Congratulations to Dr. Carlson! Binocular vision emerges from the convergence of monocular inputs in the primary visual cortex (V1), yet the specific mechanisms governing...
3/4/25 Allie Adamis: Cognitive Mechanisms of Social Anxiety in Daily Life: Unique Effects of Negative Self-Focused Attention on Post-Event Processing
Mar. 3, 2025—Clinical Brown Bag Allie Adamis, MSc PhD Candidate Date: Tuesday, March 4, 2025 Time: 12:00- 1:00pm Location: Wilson Hall 316 Cognitive Mechanisms of Social Anxiety in Daily Life: Unique Effects of Negative Self-Focused Attention on Post-Event Processing Allie Adamis, MSc, is a third-year PhD candidate in Vanderbilt’s Clinical Science program. She completed her undergraduate studies at Northwestern University...
3/6/25 Christos Constantinidis: Timescales of learning in the prefrontal cortex
Mar. 3, 2025—CCN Brown Bag Christos Constantinidis, PhD Stevenson Chair of Biomedical Engineering Date: Thursday, March 6, 2025 Time: 12:10-1:00pm Location: Wilson Hall 316 Timescales of learning in the prefrontal cortex Working memory refers to the ability to maintain and manipulate information in the conscious mind over a timescale of seconds. Working memory has been thought to be an immutable...
André Bastos wins CNS 2025 Young Investigator Award
Mar. 3, 2025—André was awarded the 2025 Young Investigator Award. The purpose of the Young Investigator Award is to recognize outstanding contributions by scientists early in their career. Two awardees are named by the Awards Committee, and are honored at the CNS Annual meeting. His lecture is titled Multi-Area, high-Density, Laminar Neurophysiology (MaDeLaNe) recordings suggest Predictive Coding is...
Ashley Watts wins 2025 APS Taylor Spence Award
Mar. 3, 2025—Vanderbilt University researcher, Ashley Watts, in the Department of Psychology, has been named a recipient of the 2025 APS Janet Taylor Spence Award for Transformative Early Career Contributions, recognizing her innovative work in understanding the complex relationship between psychopathology and addiction. Watts, who completed her PhD at Emory University in 2018, is one of seven...
Postdoctoral Researcher (Prof. Jonathan Schaefer)
Dec. 6, 2024—Dr. Sylia Wilson (University of Minnesota) in the Minnesota Center for Twin and Family Research (MCTFR) and Dr. Jonathan Schaefer (Vanderbilt University) seek to hire a postdoctoral researcher to investigate the implications of social inequality (e.g., socioeconomic disadvantage, discrimination) on the adolescent and adult brain, and neurocognitive, psychiatric, and psychosocial functioning, using largescale, genetically informative...
12/5/2024 Ikhwan Jeon: Training convolutional neural networks with blurry images enables the learning of more human-aligned visual representations
Dec. 3, 2024—CCN Brown Bag Ikhwan Jeon Graduate Student, Tong Lab Date: Thursday, December 5, 2024 Time: 12:10PM-1:00PM Location: 316 Wilson Hall Training convolutional neural networks with blurry images enables the learning of more human-aligned visual representations Although convolutional neural networks (CNNs) can achieve human-level object recognition performance on natural images, research has revealed systematic deviations...